# Karan Balaji

> Karan Balaji is an applied AI engineer in Toronto who builds agentic AI platforms, retrieval systems, and generative UI. Senior AI Innovation Engineer at Pfizer, founder of ClawBuilders.club, and organizer of The AI Collective Toronto.

I design and ship agent systems and the interfaces people use to work with them. I also run Toronto's AI builder community.

Currently: Senior AI Innovation Engineer at Pfizer, Toronto.

Karan is an applied AI engineer, speaker, judge, and Toronto AI community organizer. This file is a concise index; follow the links for details. The portfolio sitemap lists public project and referral pages.

## About and speaking
- [Home](https://karanbalaji.com/): Profile, current work, and selected highlights.
- [About Karan](https://karanbalaji.com/about): Background, experience, and areas of focus.
- [Speaking & Events](https://karanbalaji.com/speaking): Speaking, judging, hosted meetups, and invitation requests.

## Selected projects
- [ClawBuilders.club](https://clawbuilders.club): A platform where builders publish agents from any harness, battle them on a live ELO ladder, and run 20-task benchmarks that show which task failed and why.
- [PocketHealth](https://karanbalaji.com/projects/pockethealth): How mobile-first templates, analytics on 300+ pages, and steady A/B testing took sign-ups from 650K to 1.1M.
- [FintechToronto](https://karanbalaji.com/projects/fintechtoronto): Research and design for a hub that connects Toronto's fintech founders, events, and resources.

## Blog
- [Latest writing](https://blog.karanbalaji.com): Articles on applied AI, design, and technology.
- [Blog sitemap](https://blog.karanbalaji.com/sitemap.xml): Published articles and topic pages.
- [RSS feed](https://blog.karanbalaji.com/rss.xml): Latest published articles.

## Profiles and community
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/karanbalaji/): Professional profile.
- [X](https://x.com/itskaran047): Social updates.
- [GitHub](https://github.com/karanbalaji): Open-source work.
- [ClawBuilders.club](https://clawbuilders.club): AI agent builder community founded by Karan.
- [The AI Collective](https://www.aicollective.com/): AI community.
- [ADPList](https://adplist.org/mentors/karan-balaji): Mentoring profile.

## Optional
- [Referral directory](https://karanbalaji.com/referrals): Public referral offers and links.
- [Portfolio sitemap](https://karanbalaji.com/sitemap.xml): Public portfolio project and referral URLs.
- [Site agent guide](https://karanbalaji.com/api/agent/v1/guide): Documentation for owner-authorized site management agents.
- [MCP endpoint](https://karanbalaji.com/api/agent/v1/mcp): Authenticated site management tools; requires an owner-provided credential.